Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-08
THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO.
How They Appeared to q Cincinnatian.
The Trade in Mahogany.

How Thay tnr,onrad IN N fprtnpaa ~
The Trade in Nahopapv.
.Fror, tbo ci,r of Naxico so,s NJ
n + Klino ,,bo loo Ia+ol, 10, -
Mexico. II went ON to Vera Cruz and
there tool, a steamer for Minatitlan
The boat was q cl,mev old FASHIONED
affair. originalIv from tio rrni+ad stotos
and made ne hi1gh as civ mic. an bo,,r
But I had Tn stand II without e.rina a
word. Indeed. the fact is I vas cneacb-
less for a whole dav-had to mo unless 7
chose to tall, IN mvself for nnhodv nm.
derstood Fnolish. and nv Caet;Iian ,vas
not of the latest imnrovad accent W.
reached NTinoti+lan after n ,o,,cb ti,no of
If twenty miles of tbo ro,.o@a baino nm
the Coot1acoalcos river on tIo Ieth7nnrs
of Tehuantenec Nv the vrav Nrinotitlan
is the noint which Eads ronosa1 ne the
eastern terminus of his shin railway II
contains abort I O @neonla md in.s a
very fair business in cedar. moboganv
and skins. The neonle arc q mixture IF
Mexican. ar Indian and Snan;sb Tbev
look with some contemnt ON the immi.
grants from CASTLE and Araoon and
claim to sneak a ,,,rer Snanish fban that
heard in Madrid. There were some nice
people in I[inatitlan. brt there were Ger.
tain numerous natives who didn't strike
my civilized fancy with particular favor.
They came in during the week from the
back country and they were q sioht.
They Frequently walked forty mics.
bringing their market truck and ~oy,tersi in
a hammer on their backs. The dress IF
the men usually consisted of a cotton
shirt and cotton pants. the LATTER rolled
They wore leather sandals generally.
The women had blankets wranned aboilt
their waists and a SORT of iaci,a, which
they wore innocentlv loose. As often AS
not the sleeves We're tied about their
necks. with their bare arms and bosoms
EXPOSED TO the hot sun. They would
travel a two DAYS Journey To sell enolob
to bring Them thirtv-fve cents.
They don't care a New Orleans MICA.
vune for money down There. and won't
make any effort to accumulate. You
couldn't talk thrift TO them any moro than
Won could talk relioion. They don't want
either. They are content with mere ami.
NAL existence. and that i maintained
without work Wild fr,its will sustain
them nearly all the wear ,olnl Their
great stable is .friioles-in other words.
beans. Frenuentiv they make q corn
cake. which they call .@torfijla. and if is
nalatabln altbol,oh If is made without
salt. 1t is usually about as thin as n sheet
of naner. and if is nosseI when If il maal
through a solution of I've TO emf the corn
shell. The neople are TOO law to nrerara
an elaborate meal-T may say indeed.
they are too lazy to cat one. ware if ,re.
pared for them. They won't rob. because
it is too much trouble. Your ~enternrising
BURGLAR in the United States is a man
full of business. and has more 70 think of
than the AVERAGE banker Rut if is a fact
that the native NIinatitlans wouldn't run
away with n bio bap Of Mexican dollarsi if
il were living in the street and nobody
WAS looking. for if would be an effort 70
carry il of and would in1nlva soma
trouhle to conceal If 7 was in q nor
chants room there when ,bera wore
Sl95.0OO piled up in common sacks and
the only thing done at night was to lock
the wooden doors with heavy bolt, and
let a porter sleep-and the Mexicans al
WAYS sleep-in the court over the way"
This is NOT Mr.. Kline's first visit TO
Mexico. and he seems to have been quite
observant and inouisitive. Il don't see
how we can have anv very ntimate rela-
tons with Nexico-thev have very little
down there that we want. They look
upon France. Germany and England "a
closer to them than the United States.
and all their wooden imnortations come
from those countries They Fl y sbv of
Snain. somehow. and don't REGARD her "a
n cousin. 4 great deal of mahogany roes
TO Furone. blt a bio nile comes to Gin
cinnati. The forests are inexhaustible
but they are getting further and further
from the centers of TRANSPORTATION. and
the Mexicans do not run a railroad after
something they want. as we here in the
United States do. The MAHOGANY trees